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yeah but they're not SUPPOSED to be healthy! It's what you do with left over chips from fish/pie and chip friday evenings - chips butter (ketchup of your choice) and bread YUM 
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a type of processed filler of "meat" that comes in squares the same size as bagged bread! (no offense intended!) That's about it. It's just a name for a class of food-like substances. You can certainly make sandwiches without "sandwich meat". You can take a turkey carcase, slice off some breast meat, and put it between a couple of slices of bread along with whatever else you want in there. You can do a lot of things.
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chip butties???? Sounds really good ! I could murder one right now 
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OK, I'll bite, what is it???
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I could murder one right now  You can't be that hungry!
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re: chip butties
Jo, one of our early Members, writes to me today:
A word in daily use!
The clue is in the diminutive, it's a pared down sandwich with just the essentials. It especially applies to a bacon butty or buttie. In Manchester the chip butty (fries not what we call crisps) rules supreme.
A butty is a thin sandwich with/without butter and tomato ketchup. It's a breakfast or a snack at lunchtime or later, say after the pub.
A clever American-style sandwich, like a BLT with layers and posh ingredients like mayonnaise is definitely not a butty!
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Chip butty? Bread with French fries? nohhhh!
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they are definately NOT fries...no siree, no mini skinny 'chips' for us! we have proper chips over here! (  and they are YUMMY!!! 
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In Québec, prior to the 1960s and the revolution against the church, people used to eat a thing called a guedille on Fridays. It was a hotdog bun without the sausage, stuffed with french-fries and all the trimming usually eaten with a hotdog. That was because the Catholic church did not allow them to eat meat on Fridays.
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Yes Bex, I'd like to order the upper meal, just fish and chips. Wonderful. But suffocating good chips between two layers of dry bread? Criminal. 
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Yup. You need to smother them in mayonaise.
Or if they are of the soft greasy variety, then a ton of salt and vinegar. Mmmmmmmmm.
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So which is the chip butty???
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Yup. You need to smother them in mayonaise. Ah, but if you use posh ingredients like mayo it's not a butty.
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Bex you ought to be shot for putting those pictures up. It's got me thinking - get yourself some fish n chips [then a butty] today. I think a butty should come before the fish n chips. That way the chips don't get stale. Jackie, food thread alert!!! I didn't start it. Bex did!
Eta: okay no mayo.
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Mayo is posh? Not if it drips onto your shirt.
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Butty meaning bread with or without butter, choose the obvious best: a single fish and chips today, just like me and Avy. No mayo.
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OK, I'll bite, what is it???
chips butter (ketchup of your choice) and bread
The one I saw consisted of thick fries (what we'd call steak fries) on a bun.
Yeah, Avy, I know. But right now I'll glom onto saying we're trying to define butty...
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A chip or bacon butty (butte)tastes so much better with real butter oozing out. And I have tomato sauce in mine. I've stopped adding salt to the chips....at least that way I think its a bit healthier Have you tried one yet Luke?
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you might as well call a chip butty a carb butty - 'twould blow anyone's diet to smithereens.
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I only indulge once in a while
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A chip or bacon butty (butte)tastes so much better with real butter oozing out. And I have tomato sauce in mine. I've stopped adding salt to the chips....at least that way I think its a bit healthier Have you tried one yet Luke? Thanks to you and Jackie (above one post) for defining the thing. I can't even imagine one, much less find a place where they are served. But from the discussion here it looks like a relatively common thing. I know they don't exist on any menu hereabouts. And no I don't really think I'd try one. Fries (potatoes) and catchup are good enough without making a sandwich out of them. Very curious combination.
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To stay on the foodline, Yeh!! I got the little pretty cake. Thanks Jackie, I know how long it takes to bake it.
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Looks very much like a Birthday Cake to me, Bran Hope you had a good one
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Thank you. Which provider still sets his employees on sending birthday cards to its clients ? (no advertising meant) ( Luke, here's your sheep ) Link
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And a right fine looking fellow he is too.
Thanks for sharing it with me. The Little Prince
enjoyed it as well.
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one of my readers sent this:
There is a good chance that if you are having a butty it will be on a bap.
I have never found a reasonable explanation where the word 'bap' came from but it is defined as a soft roll and the word has been in use since the 16th century from what little I can find about its origins.
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Thank you. Which provider still sets his employees on sending birthday cards to its clients ? (no advertising meant) ( Luke, here's your sheep ) Link BY THE WAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAN
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